ECONOMICS
Define stocks
Partial Ownership of a firm.
what is the term for insensitivity to pain, or pain blindness, present from birth?
Congenital analgesia.
What is the midpoint of the line segment from (7.9,3,5.5) to (.1,-17,-50)?
(4,10,-22.25)
When does the term "photographic" originate from and what does it mean?
From the Greek for "Light" and "writing".
What is the term for playing the pitches of a chord one after another rather than simultaneously?
Arpeggio
Define equity finance.
Sale of Bonds.
What is the part of the spinal nerves that contains the cell bodies for somatosensory neurons bringing information from the skin and tissues to the brain?
Dorsal Root Ganglion.
What is the midpoint of the line segment between (11,-5) and (-4,15)?
(3.5,-5)
Who put together four pieces of paper to get a panoramic view of the city of Windsor from projected images of a camera obscura?
Thomas Sandby
What Disney film, released in 1982, combined CGI, hand-drawn animation, live-action filing, synthesized music and acoustic orchestral scoring?
TRON
Define Dividends.
Payment of a share of a firm's profit to it's stockholders.
What are nerves/axons that bring information down from the central nervous system or brain?
Efferent.
What is the midpoint of the line segment between (8,-11,7) and (-3,10,-7)?
(2.5,-0.5,0)
Name the artist who created the 1769 engraving table camera Obsalla?
Georg Brander
What does CGI stand for?
Computer Generated Imagery.
The value of a share is dependent on what?
The current profits and future prospects of the firm.
What is another word for axons?
Afferents.
What is the midpoint of the line segment between (51,-7,1) and (14,-21,-3)?
(32.5,-14,-1)
When did Niepce start experimenting with images?
1816
What was the first entirely CGI- generated film, released in 1995?
Toy Story
What do sales of stock figure into the GDP?
When they are initially sold to the public by the firm.
Touch and proprioception signals travel from the tissues of the body up to the brain via what system?
The Dorsal Column Medial Lemniscal system (DCML)
What is the midpoint of the line segment between (0,0,0) and (16,33,-45)?
(8,16.5,-22.5)
What did Niepce try without success?
Create a positive image (one in which the tones are re-reversed and thereby corrected)
How is TRON similar to Alice in Wonderland and Wizard of Oz?
A real-world character enters a strange, unfamiliar environment in all three cases.